Outside in
Claus Moser, statistician and culture-lover, died on September 4th, aged 92
A GOOD way to rile Claus Moser was to tell him that statistics were dry. In courteous English, still slightly inflected by his Berlin boyhood, he would explain to the snootily innumerate types who adorn the upper reaches of British life that on the contrary, numbers were like words; they cast light on people’s lives, and what could be more interesting than that? If that failed, he would with gentle mischief let slip that he ran the Royal Opera House, and then feign boredom when beseeched for tickets.
This article appeared in the Obituary section of the print edition under the headline “Outside in”
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